In his immeasurable brilliance, Obama would pick premium cable instead of insulin and Park City over paying the landlord.

Similarly, as March 1 triggered the sequester - an automatic spending-cut mechanism that Obama himself initiated in July 2011 - Obama did not curb Washington's extravagance to finance this year's $85 billion sequester. Instead, like a fiscal Stephen King, Obama frightened Americans into embracing Big Government by siphoning Uncle Sam's bone marrow rather than giving him liposuction.

It would be bad enough if these really were Washington's only options. Obviously, they're not. Washington can and should whack spending without making life easier for rubella, E. coli, militant Islam, and other lethal, low-level life forms.

"Hundreds of billions of dollars are borrowed and then left unspent because Congress routinely bites off more than it can chew," Rubio stated. Added Price: "Leaving billions of taxpayer dollars to gather dust in federal coffers only encourages fiscal irresponsibility. By rescinding this unspent and unobligated money.we can contribute to the larger goal of breaking the government's habit of borrowing and spending money we cannot afford."

The Public Interest Research Group and the National Taxpayers Union jointly identified $1 trillion in 10-year savings through 56 budget cuts that liberals and conservatives should love. These range from killing a $10 million biodiesel education grant to a $160 billion modernization of federal computer systems. The $77 billion Crop Insurance program should be uprooted. The feds own some 55,500 buildings that are "not utilized or underutilized." Sell them. Even giving them away would save taxpayers $17 billion in maintenance expenses - on empty buildings!

Rather than spend $179,750-per-hour to fly Air Force One from rally to rally to demonize Republicans, Obama should sit still long enough to send Congress a budget request. The federal Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 mandates that the President's spending plan reach Capitol Hill by the first Monday of February. Obama's last two budgets arrived late, and this year's is AWOL. Before Obama barks at Republicans yet again, he should start doing his job.

Deroy Murdock is a Fox News contributor, a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service, and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.

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